Meter's Case
Bruce Von Stiers
Jack Meter is a PI with a situation. He wished that he was dead. He has spent the last two years grieving over a lover who was blown up in a lab explosion. Now Meter is being asked to investigate a theft. He doesn't want to do it but the client is really unusual. The client is an alien. This is what starts out Metered Space, a sci-fi mystery by M.D. Benoit. This novel is being published by Zumaya Publications, a small Canadian publishing house with a lot of great titles.
Jack has been abducted by a group of aliens. They have repaired his body and melded telepathically with him. Now they want Jack to find an item that was stolen from their world. If not found, the world in which they live in will be destroyed.
Traveling between Earth and the other world can be tricky. Jack is given a kinetic tether by the aliens. He can switch between the worlds using this device.
Jack is trying to figure who stole the portal that the aliens seem to need. He runs afoul of the cops, his girlfriend's old boss and her best friend. Jack also finds out that the aliens haven't exactly been truthful in what is really going on.
And to top if off, Jack keeps running into elements of his girlfriend Annie. She apparently had been doing something with the aliens before her lab blew up. Annie's essence is all over things that Jack gets into on this case.
What Jack initially believes is a conspiracy ends up being the demented plan of a madman. Can he stop the horrendous plot before the entire universe is destroyed?
Metered Space is an interesting and entertaining novel. It is both a science fiction novel and a mystery novel. M.D. Benoit has written a book that keeps you going, wanting to get to the end so that you know how everything turns out. Jack Meter is not so burned out that he can't solve the case. Or can he?
For an excerpt from Metered Space, visit M.D. Benoit's web site. It can be found at www.mdbenoit.com . You should also check out the Zumaya Publications web site for the latest and greatest novels they are publishing. They are at www.zumayapublications.com .
© 2005 Bruce E Von Stiers